Erik Halvar Bertil Björk (22 September 1928 – 12 November 2000) was a Swedish
actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
. He worked at the
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal pop ...
City Theatre from 1962 till 1986, but also made many substantial film- and TV-roles; for example, he acted in ''
Autumn Sonata
''Autumn Sonata'' ( sv, Höstsonaten, link=no) is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman (in her final film role), Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. Its plot follows a celebrated classical pianist and he ...
'' (1978) and ''
Sunday's Children'' (1992) by
Ingmar Bergman and ''
The Emigrants'' (1971) and ''
The New Land
''The New Land'' ( sv, Nybyggarna) is a 1972 Swedish film directed and co-written by Jan Troell and starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Allan Edwall, Monica Zetterlund, and Pierre Lindstedt. It and its 1971 predecessor, ''The Emi ...
'' (1972) by
Jan Troell
Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish writer-director, and cinematographer. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with ...
.
Björk won the
Best Actor at the
5th Guldbagge Awards for his performance in the
Yngve Gamlin film ''
Badarna'' (1968).
He died of
lung cancer
Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malign ...
.
Filmography
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1928 births
2000 deaths
Swedish male film actors
Swedish male stage actors
Swedish male television actors
Best Actor Guldbagge Award winners
20th-century Swedish male actors
Deaths from lung cancer in Sweden
People from Ragunda Municipality
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